Carol E. Lee wrote: The laboratory of Carol E. Lee participated in a research exchange with colleagues at the Université de Montpellier in France, including Professors Guy Charmantier, Catherine Lorin-Nebel, and Jehan-Herve Lignot. Our labs engaged in cross-training of students and co

Victor Frankel writes: In an increasingly globalized world, populations of invasive species can be the product of multiple independent introduction events with founder populations having different biogeographical origins and distinct life history traits. With support of a GIN research

With the support of the Global Invasions Research Coordination Network, Tom Evans traveled to Stellenbosch University in South Africa, to prepare a manuscript with Dr. Sabrina Kumschick at the Centre for Invasion Biology. The manuscript compared the results of two studies undertaken i

Meghan Skaer writes: With the support of the Research Exchange Grant, I spent four weeks working with Dr. Maarten Eppinga at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. During this time, we developed a model to help explain competitive interactions in US Western grassland invasive species

Holly Kilvitis, University of South Florida, writes: In May 2013, I participated in a research exchange at the University of Texas at Austin to work in Dr. Steven Phelps’ laboratory. The goal of this research exchange was to sequence the promoter region of the house sparrow (Passer do

GIN RCN member Kateřina Štajerová from the Czech Republic spent two months in the United States and Canada. Kateřina Štajerová writes: Thanks to GIN RCN travel grant, my flight ticket to North America has been covered this year. During this trip, I not only collected data at several f

Bill McDowell, PhD student in James Byers’ Lab, was recently funded by GIN for a small research exchange to Portugal. He was working on the invasive clam Corbicula fluminea in the Lab of Ronaldo Sousa. Bill McDowell wrote: From July 1 – July 15 Dr. Ronaldo Sousa and

Ideas for a small group meeting? Go visit that colleague you’ve always wanted to have a couple days to work with? Send a student to learn a new skill? Apply Now! We have research exchange funds remaining. Help us use them up! Several people have exchanges or small meetings plann

PhD student Kathryn Turner from Canada visited the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montpellier, France, to initiate a common garden experiment on the invasive weed, Centaurea diffusa. Kathryn Turner writes: With the help of the RCN travel grant, I spent two months at

Kelsey Johnson worked in the laboratory of Guy Charmantier at the Université de Montpellier, Franc, to study osmoregulatory structures that are involved in ionic regulation in the common copepod Eurytemora affinis. Carol Lee writes: During the summer of 2011, an undergraduate student